THE GREAT FIRE IN SYDNEY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVI, Issue 12551, 12 July 1901, Page 5

THE GREAT FIRE IN SYDNEY.

THE CONFLAiS&ATTON AT HORDERN'S EMPORIUM. FURTHER LOSS OF LIFE. • IMMENSE DAMAGE DONE: ANOTHER FIRE. A TRIBUTE TO THE FIRE BRIGADES. United Press Association—'By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, July 11. Mr Hordern estimates that stock valued at £500,000 was destroyed. The total damage has not been stated yet. Messrs Hordem have secured the Exhibition Building, in Prince Alfred Park, and will re-start business this morning. In the Kent Street fire, the premises of Messrs Lazarus and Rosenfeldt, general merchants, adjoining, were damaged by water. The fire brigades did splendid work at both outbreaks. The head of the Department declares that they would have dona much better but for the fact that they were under-engined and under-manned. Another extensive early-morning firs gutted five out of six floors in a six-storied building, occupied by the Imperial Manufacturing Company, in Kent Street, containing a large stock of tea and food stuffs. The damage is estimated at several thousands sterling, and considerable damage was done by water. THE DEATH ROLL. (Received July 11, 4 p.m.) ! SYDNEY, July 11. Inquiries show that William -Dash-wood and Walter Butt, engineers, and John Nicholl and Robert Malcolm, packers, perished in Hordern's fire. FURTHER VICTIMS. HOW THEY LOST THEIR LIVES. (Received July 12, 12.1 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 11. Their failure to return to their homes last night led to the discovery of other victims of the fire, Dashwood and Porett were attending the engines in the basement of the building, and wetrei warned! to fly. Two companions got out through the door. It is supposed that the victims tried to escape through a window, not knowing that it was guarded with iron bars. Meantime, the fire spread so rapidly that retreat by the door was cut off. Nicholl and Malcolm were with Clegg on the upper floor. The fireman who warned them to fly for their lives had great difficulty in escaping. It is believed that they feared to faoe the burning stairway and made their way to the roof. Onlookers state that they saw a second man topple, back into the" flames just .before Clegg jumped. Preparations are being made to dynamite the walls. Horderng were doing business in the Exhibition building all day. THE INSURANCES. (Received duly 12, 1.4- a.m.) SYDNEY, July 11. The corrected-list of Hordern's insurances totals £394,718. The amounts told by the South British are £IB,OOO, New Zealand £9968. The insurance companies uw volved in the Kent Street fire include the New Zealand, £3625.